Eamonn Noonan
@duhallow.bsky.social
International relations, human rights, strategic foresight, history.
Hibernia me genuit, Germania Italiaque me docuit, Belgia me recepit, Norvegia me tenet.
Hibernia me genuit, Germania Italiaque me docuit, Belgia me recepit, Norvegia me tenet.
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Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long?
"It was all a lie. A performance. Propaganda, plain and simple," writes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/israels-mi...
"It was all a lie. A performance. Propaganda, plain and simple," writes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/israels-mi...
Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long?
I have spent the past two years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with supporters of Israel. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them.
zeteo.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long?
"It was all a lie. A performance. Propaganda, plain and simple," writes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/israels-mi...
"It was all a lie. A performance. Propaganda, plain and simple," writes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/israels-mi...
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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Takeaway:
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"
This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"
This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse
January 31, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Takeaway:
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"
This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"
This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse
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Dispatching ICE agents to hit "groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action," the software allows the administration to order up a goon squad wherever they want, at the touch of a button.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
January 31, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Dispatching ICE agents to hit "groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action," the software allows the administration to order up a goon squad wherever they want, at the touch of a button.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
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Worth noting as this may be the 1st time the activation of Art 7(1) in respect of Hungary has led a court in another EUMS to find the asylum application of a 🇭🇺 citizen admissible on account of Protocol no 24, point (b) before granting the application
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender
Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
Mutual trust does not supersede human rights! Italian judges unprecedently recognize the refugee status to an EU citizen
Dr. Chiara Scissa * Photo credit : Bologna Tribunal, photo by Alex Sirac via Wikimedia Commons * Research fellow in EU law at the Uni...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Worth noting as this may be the 1st time the activation of Art 7(1) in respect of Hungary has led a court in another EUMS to find the asylum application of a 🇭🇺 citizen admissible on account of Protocol no 24, point (b) before granting the application
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
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Quite a day when this is what's leading the paper that covers the markets and economics
January 31, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Quite a day when this is what's leading the paper that covers the markets and economics
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American tech giant Ubiquiti powers 80% of the radio networks used by Russian forces in Ukraine.
🧵 1/6 ⬇️
🧵 1/6 ⬇️
January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
American tech giant Ubiquiti powers 80% of the radio networks used by Russian forces in Ukraine.
🧵 1/6 ⬇️
🧵 1/6 ⬇️
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Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
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Celtic Tiger crony capitalism.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
Developers to face 'zero consequences'
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
But f*ck the tax payers
Anyone surprised
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Celtic Tiger crony capitalism.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
The gift that keeps taking and taking - from the taxpayer.
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1903: Don't build a fire station! It will arouse desire for a library.
January 30, 2026 at 10:41 AM
1903: Don't build a fire station! It will arouse desire for a library.
Do you agree that Israel has committed massive human rights abuses in Palestine, and that the EU should therefore suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement?
If you do, and are an EU citizen, please consider signing this petition.
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
If you do, and are an EU citizen, please consider signing this petition.
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Do you agree that Israel has committed massive human rights abuses in Palestine, and that the EU should therefore suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement?
If you do, and are an EU citizen, please consider signing this petition.
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
If you do, and are an EU citizen, please consider signing this petition.
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Same BBC story, two different headlines. The website (comply or else) transmogrifies (I come in peace) when posted to Bluesky.
Algorthmic alchemy!
Algorthmic alchemy!
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Same BBC story, two different headlines. The website (comply or else) transmogrifies (I come in peace) when posted to Bluesky.
Algorthmic alchemy!
Algorthmic alchemy!
At Burns Night in Oslo recently, I got to give the Immortal Memory speech.
Theme: Why do we have national literary heroes?
Here it is, slightly shortened.
www.linkedin.com/posts/eamonn...
Theme: Why do we have national literary heroes?
Here it is, slightly shortened.
www.linkedin.com/posts/eamonn...
Robert Burns in our time | Eamonn Noonan
Oslo Burns Night, hosted by the irrepressible Sarah Prosser, is very different from the formal dinners that mark the birthday of Scotland’s national poet elsewhere. But it does include haggis, and aft...
www.linkedin.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:37 PM
At Burns Night in Oslo recently, I got to give the Immortal Memory speech.
Theme: Why do we have national literary heroes?
Here it is, slightly shortened.
www.linkedin.com/posts/eamonn...
Theme: Why do we have national literary heroes?
Here it is, slightly shortened.
www.linkedin.com/posts/eamonn...
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Also after the U.S. acquisition of Tik Tok was finalized on 22 Jan 2026, @wizard_bisan1 one of the largest and most influential voices for Palestine, was permanently banned.
She just joined @upscrolled with the username "lamBisan"
She just joined @upscrolled with the username "lamBisan"
January 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Also after the U.S. acquisition of Tik Tok was finalized on 22 Jan 2026, @wizard_bisan1 one of the largest and most influential voices for Palestine, was permanently banned.
She just joined @upscrolled with the username "lamBisan"
She just joined @upscrolled with the username "lamBisan"
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
In an absolutist regime, you are either a loyalist or illegal.
In a new fundraising email, Trump asks people to give him money or else ICE will assume they are an “illegal alien” and “track you down”
January 28, 2026 at 6:18 PM
In an absolutist regime, you are either a loyalist or illegal.
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Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
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Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’.
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
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Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
2/
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’.
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
2/
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
2/